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Sentencing jury in high-profile Connecticut case will not get to hear about capital costs

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this AP article, which is headlined "Conn. judge: Jury can't consider execution cost, " a state trial judge has today "ruled that a Connecticut man convicted of a deadly home invasion cannot bring up the cost of executions when jurors consider whether to impose the death penalty." Here's more: New Haven Superior Court Judge Jon Blue ruled Thursday against attorneys for Steven Hayes, who wanted to include the cost of putting someone to death as a mitigating factor that might favor a life prison sentence. The judge said jurors have the task of "using reasoned moral judgment, not counting dollars and cents" in deciding life-or-death punishment. Hayes was convicted last week of murdering a woman and her two daughters in Cheshire in 2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).